The scary part is the handful of computer touchers I maintained contact with after they got whisked away into surveillance or even military-industrial empires present themselves as superficially happy about their work. Not just on LinkedIn; they sort of present themselves like a LinkedIn account.
For those reading that don’t know what that is like, just imagine a typical HackerNews community circlejerk but lived and spoken.
It’s especially fucked how they buy into the “cool hacker rebel with a hoodie” aesthetic like a fucking youtube music compilation and make six figures and wear lanyards while making society a little more oppressive.
They probably are truly happy working on that dumb ass empire
Without confirmed exception the ones I know are all “GALACTIC EMPIRE DID NOTHING WRONG” contrarians that also enthusiastically talked about their “zombie apocalypse survival plans”
No I need another SV techie to feel this soul crushing pain with me
I knew Ulysses lived near SV, but I’ve never seen him say he’s a techie. I thought he was a school teacher.
Not a techie, but went to class and roomed with techies. All of the exposure, none of the perks
Working is another hellhole level of exposure be glad you never experienced that at least
The scary part is the handful of computer touchers I maintained contact with after they got whisked away into surveillance or even military-industrial empires present themselves as superficially happy about their work. Not just on LinkedIn; they sort of present themselves like a LinkedIn account.
For those reading that don’t know what that is like, just imagine a typical HackerNews community circlejerk but lived and spoken.
They probably are truly happy working on that dumb ass empire 1984 nerd shit
I’m so fucking jealous of them all
It’s especially fucked how they buy into the “cool hacker rebel with a hoodie” aesthetic like a fucking youtube music compilation and make six figures and wear lanyards while making society a little more oppressive.
Without confirmed exception the ones I know are all “GALACTIC EMPIRE DID NOTHING WRONG” contrarians that also enthusiastically talked about their “zombie apocalypse survival plans”
misery dooby loving company